[m-rev.] for review: simplify the use of mdbrc by test cases

[Zoltan Somogyi]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:42:03 +1100, Peter Wang <novalazy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 04 Oct 2020 03:23:37 +1100 "Zoltan Somogyi" <zoltan.somogyi at runbox.com> wrote:
> > diff --git a/Mmakefile b/Mmakefile
> > index a66838b..0dcfa8b 100644
> > --- a/Mmakefile
> > +++ b/Mmakefile
> > @@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ bindist: WORK_IN_PROGRESS TODO
> >  
> >  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
> >  
> > -clean: clean_tests clean_subdirs
> > +clean: clean_tests clean_subdirs clean_extras
> >  
> >  .PHONY: clean_subdirs
> >  clean_subdirs:
> > @@ -941,14 +941,20 @@ clean_subdirs:
> >  .PHONY: clean_tests
> >  clean_tests:
> >  	+if test -d tests; then \
> > -		(cd tests; $(SUBDIR_MMAKE) clean) \
> > +		(cd tests; $(MMAKE) $(MMAKEFLAGS) clean) \
> >  	fi
> 
> Do you remember if you deliberately changed $(SUBDIR_MMAKE) to $(MMAKE)
> for some reason? (here and elsewhere)

No, I don't.

> The top-level Makefile defines MMAKE as
> 
>     MMAKE=          MMAKE_DIR=`pwd`/scripts scripts/mmake
> 
> so "make realclean" is broken, but "mmake realclean" works.

Do we even have a list of targets that *should* work with plain make,
as opposed to mmake?

Zoltan.